238 StoneJienge and its Barrows. 



5 th day of August, in the fifteenth year of the reign of King 

 Charles, 1539, mention is made of the several fishings of Sir 

 Laurence Washington lately called Mr. Dawbony^s Mill Pond, And 

 further on mention is m.ade of Stonage down, parcell of West 

 Amesbury, Sir Laurence Washington's Hold. In the boundaries 

 of the Manor of Amesbury Priory mention is again made of the 

 Mill Pond or several water called now Sir Laurence Washington's 

 (late Mr. Dowbeny's Mill Pond) . The foregoing goes to prove two 

 things, that the West Amesbury Estate did belong to Sir Laurence 

 Washington ; and, lastly, that it belonged to M. Dawbony, previous 

 to Sir Laurence Washington. The said Sir Laurence Washington, 

 knight, was Chief Eegister of the Chancery, ancestor of the first 

 President of the United States of America. He died at Oxford, 

 May 4th, 1643, aged 64, and was buried in the church of Garsdon, 

 Wilts, where thei'e is a monument to his memory. Refer to Britton's 

 "Beauties of Wiltshire,'' vol. iii., p. 66. The Manor of Garsdon, 

 which belonged to him, passed to his son of the same name, and 

 West Amesbury, with Stonehenge, descended in the same way. 



4. In 1643. Laurence Washington, Esq., who is mentioned by 

 Inigo Jones, in his work, entitled " The most notable Antiquity of 

 Great Britain, vulgarly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, 1665," 

 as being at that time proprietor of the site of that ancient monu- 

 ment. Page 107 speaks of him "as his honored Friend Laurence 

 Washington, Esq., on whose demesnes this antiquity stands." 



5. In 1665 Stonehenge is spoken of by Aubrey in his " Monu- 

 menta Britannica," as being part of the inheritance of the wife of 

 Lord Ferrars of Chartley, who was daughter of Laurence Washington, 

 Esq., and which is refei-red to in Sir Richard Colt Hoare's " History 

 of Ancient Wiltshire," vol. i., pp. 153 and 154. 



6. In 1723. Thomas Hayward, Esq.— Refer to the "Wiltshire 

 Archseological and Natural History Magazine," vol. xiv., p. 229 : 

 " Thomas Hayward gen: owner of Stonehenge 4 Jul. 1723." It 

 appears that he died in 1724. The above in the autograph of Dr. 

 Stukeley and written in a copy of his work " Stonehenge and Abury." 



7. In 1724. Rev. Mr. Hayward— Refer to the "Wiltshire Arch- 

 seological and Natural History Magazine," vol. siv.. No. 41, page 



